Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When screening began we agreed to discontinue it at the end of the first year if there were a number of traumatised families . |
| 2 | Secular books on the New Age tend to treat it as the latest fad ; the ‘ in thing ’ of the eighties , full of Alternative Types and quaint ideas about the ‘ good life ’ down on the organic , backyard farm . |
| 3 | LIKE BEAUTY , tawdriness is in the eye of the beholder , and on their country 's 40th birthday East Germans tend to see it through the cruelly unblinking eyes of thoroughly Westernised consumers . |
| 4 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 5 | In my judgment , this draft having been sent to the plaintiffs by Sir Richard Temple , and retained and cashed by them , we ought to draw the conclusion that the plaintiff , who kept and cashed the draft , agreed to accept it on the terms upon which it was sent … . |
| 6 | Kankoila was one of the founder members of FLING , helping to establish it in the early 1950s . |
| 7 | Counsel thought so little of it that he did not seek to sustain it before the House of Lords . |
| 8 | The sovereignty of Parliament has been the linchpin of our unwritten and flexible constitution ; it can be traced back in our political practice and constitutional theory for almost three centuries ; and yet the constitutional authorities have come to see it as the fundamental constitutional problem needing challenge and change . |
| 9 | We have come to see it through the eyes of the people who take part in it . |
| 10 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 11 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 12 | He tried to find it after the war . |
| 13 | He tried to flog it on the bus |
| 14 | As a diversion , which would allow time for the passing of the trembling , I reached into my pocket , pulled out the tin of rubbers , and tried to open it in the dark . |
| 15 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 16 | Mr Joseph Bronson ( HMS Milne ) , of Helmington Terrace , Hunwick , is still waiting for his medal but is expected to receive it within the next few weeks . |
| 17 | ‘ We know that the semi-final is important , and every one of us wants to win it for the manager , but we have got to approach every game in the same way . |
| 18 | It 's an antique and that bloke 's an antique dealer , he 's come to nick it off the line and flog it for thousands . |
| 19 | Difficulties arose , however , when people tried to apply it to the electromagnetic field , which has an infinite number of degrees of freedom , roughly speaking two for each point of space-time . |
| 20 | the best thing you want to stick it in the room and put a heater . |
| 21 | Luke 's voice was so low that she had to strain to hear it above the noisy chatter of the birds , the rustle of the breeze in the trees . |
| 22 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 23 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
| 24 | Erm on the understanding that for any Green Party members that want to use it over the conference . |
| 25 | ‘ And I want to use it in the plot for my new novel , ’ Melissa continued . |
| 26 | You want to put it in the fridge ? |
| 27 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 28 | And then she tried to put it in the washing machine for a joke and the dog was gon na get in . |
| 29 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 30 | If you want to leave it to the last minute you can also bring your items to the Community Centre on the morning . |